LE MIGRAZIONI E I PROCESSI DI SVILUPPO DEI PAESI DI ORIGINE E DESTINAZIONE

The importance given to the migratory phenomena occurring all over the world is more and more evident because of their relevance both demographically (hence the differentials existing in the TFT of the developed and developing countries) and in economic terms (given the possible increase and promotion of economic growth in developing countries). Consequently, in a context such as the present one in which demographic events and economic phenomena are combined, a fundamental role is played on a micro-level by the migrant, who comes to occupy the role of fundamental "resource", both for the place of origin and for the place of destination, while on a macro level the territorial mobility of populations, which brings in new features, regarding the natural movement of populations, that are very different from those already rooted in the developed countries, could play a "re-equilibrating" role in the quantitative development of populations. Takink all these factors into account, it is worth examining and reflecting on the role of the migratory phenomena in a well limited area — the area that includes the countries of the EU and of the Mediterranean Basin — which we have been methodically analysing for some years and above all since the time when the Southern European countries started to become more and more the areas of final destination for people coming prevalently from the Southern bank of the Mediterranean and from the Third World in general.